Practice all chords on page 34: it will take time to gain accuracy, as well as knowing which string to find the root and fifth of each chord

Music 16B class activities

Week 1

Introductions

From Beginning Acoustice Guitar

Introduce A minor pentatonic scale, 5th position

Introduce Beginning Blues Improvisation, p. 70.

Week 2

Continue the blues in A, along with the A pentatonic minor scale, and the blues riffs that we began week 1. Practice trading solo and 12 bar chords for some time. Introduce "Pinch technique" on page 14 (Snyder book) - another way to play the 12 bar blues, this time in G.

practice moving the A minor pentatonic to the third fret, where the G minor pentatonic is found (p. 17 of Snyder book),

work on the scale and riffs to play along with Hesitation. Introduce fingerstyle technique

Finger names: pima

Introduce pima block chord, and ascending arpeggios, and then introduced the pattern for The Cruel War is Raging on p. 30.

Practice melody for Cruel War

Students should look ahead to Bridges on p. 31, both the arpeggio and the melody